Absolute Live Productions — Video, Sound & Streaming

For more information about what Absolute Live Productions could do for your event, concert, awards ceremony, fight, wedding or party please call Dave @ 310 560 2373

Absolute Live Productions is a live production company specializing in remote, on location, multi-camera,  events, concerts, fights, conferences, political debates, red carpets etc.  We utilize state of the art equipment packages to bring the viewer a professional quality broadcast or stream, while keeping the price point attractive to our client base.  In the past year Absolute Live Productions has either produced or been involved in the following projects:

Red Carpet Emmy awards 2011

Rock the Red Kettle (Salvation Army) @ Universal 2011 with host Mario Lopez of Extra, featuring  a mix of today’s top young stars, including Honor Society, Colbie Caillat, Cody Simpson, Greyson Chance, Drake Bell and Hanson, along with other special surprise guests. United Rockers 4U  (Red Cross) @ Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood – Featuring Eddie Money, Bobby Kimball (Toto), Jimi Jamison (Survivor), Don Dokken (Dokken), Terry Ilous (Great White/XYZ), Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy Osbourne/Quiet Riot/Whitesnake), Robin McAuley (McAuley Schenker Group/Survivor), Phil Lewis (LA Guns), Richie Kotzen (Poison/Mr. Big), Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt/Quiet Riot), Brian Tichy (Whitesnake/Foreigner/Billy Idol), Jeff Paris (hit songwriter for Mr. Big, Vixen, Lita Ford), Robert Sarzo (Hurricane) and session player Michael Thompson (MTB)

Lollapaloza 2011 Fender After-Party Chicago Hard Rock Hotel ( Bands) 2011  Maps & Atlases, Phantogram

Club Nokia Los Angeles 2011 Muay Thai Championship Us vs Thailand 2011

4 City Tour of  “Braco”  (Conduit of Energy Healer) 2011

Malibu Country Club Film Industry Award Ceremony  2011

New Product Discussion Panel for Film Industry Manufacturer 2011

Professional MMA Fight Live from the New Orleans Hotel, Las Vegas 2011

Pac 12 Media Day live from Fox Studios 2011

Henson Feature Film Project Live to Hard Drive 2011

Major Hollywood Film release event at the Beverly Hills Hotel 2011

Political Talk Show Live from Santa Monica Studio 2011

Medical Talk Show Live from Santa Monica Studio 2011

Automobile Trade Show Las Vegas 2011

New Car Release  private stream  for employees and dealers live from Paramount Studios 2011

If you would like to get more specific information about any of our past credits or would like to discuss an up coming event, please do not hesitate to call.   Dave @ 310 560 2373.  dave.absolute@gmail.com

 

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Wikipedia – Production  Truck

Wikipedia definition of “Production Truck” is as follows, “ Television Production trucks were developed to take television studios on the road so video productions could be made at distant locations for a remote broadcast, outside broadcasting (OB), electronic field production (EFP) with multiple-camera setup and a support of a number of different technologies to bring everything together. Each production varies, some require a crew of about 12-16 to make sure the production goes smoothly. There are usually one or two other trucks following the main production truck with some of the equipment not able to fit in the main truck, as well as an uplink truck required to transmit the video across the world. ”

 

Now while this information is still accurate in many cases, Technology has shifted the paradigm to meet the demands of internet or small footprint production delivery requirement.  This new method of working is typically exemplified by having a much smaller crew and a remarkably reduced price point for the client.  In the end the viewer experience is often unchanged from that of a large format truck production.  So in this next paragraph we will attempt to give a first look at the new wikipedia description of ” The Truckless Production Truck”

 

Truckless Production Truck (TPT)

 Truckless Production trucks were developed to take television studios on the road to places that could not be reached by a truck.  In the early days of TPT,  the production companies would rely on  many individually racked equipment fly packs that would then be wired together through massive cable looms. They would design these systems that would still require the use of  massive delivery systems and detailed integrated logistics to coordinate the multitude of components required to design a mobile truck solution.   Although these systems were very effective for their time, they still presented the client with an expensive alternative to productions with ever shrinking budgets.

Although the world of live internet streaming began a number of years  before 2010, it was really in the early months of that year that we truly saw the world of live production change for ever.  This happened for a number of reasons. For one, Newtek’s Tricaster had emerged on the scene, bringing with it an extremely robust yet affordable solution to bringing multi camera video productions to an ever increasing client base.  When Newtek released their flagship product, the TriCaster 850, everything changed.  With 8 HD discrete camera inputs and the ability to get five digital media players and  to have  two DDRs, titles bin, stills store, and a sound player,  productions could now bring the production studio onto an airplane.

Companies like Absolute Rentals and Absolute Live Productions soon saw the advantage of offering a global solution to the ever increasing need to stream live content on the internet.  Absolute Live Productions built an integrated workflow that allowed them to travel to remote locations utilizing an equipment package that would travel with the crew on their flight.  This allows them the ability to keep costs at a minimum and still deliver a high quality professional product.  They use tools such as the Newtek 3 play which gives them the opportunity to use multi camera slow-motion for MMA fights, professional & amateur football and any other sporting event that wants to slow down the action for a closer look.  They have  also incorporated the Teradek Cube & Bond to bring live HD remote wireless cameras to an event when connecting a cable is simply not practical.

The crew at Absolute Live Productions feels that although there will always be a place for large production trucks and video fly packs, it is the smaller, but extremely effective live streaming packages that ALP will continue to bring to their client base.

 

To get more information about what Absolute Live Productions or Absolute Rentals could do for your production, Please call, Dave Rosen @ 310 560 2373

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 After party @ the Hard Rock Hotel

 

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 A.L.P. would like to thank Brian,  Ian and the rest of the crew for the fantastic experience @ L.A. Rising

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Absolute Live Productions and the Pac12 Media Day @ 20th Century Fox

 

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100 Monkeys Live Performance from  Fender Burbank, 6-19-11

Absolute Live Productions was on hand tonight to bring the Live Switching , Capture and Streaming of Fenders Listening party for the new release of 100 Monkeys Album, Liquid Zoo.   We had a chance to talk to Brett Collins one of Absolute Live Productions Producers about the gig. Ashley: Brett,  Tell us about what you do at Absolute Live Productions? Brett: My job is to make the shows happen.  What makes  live productions unique there is 1000 challenges or potential problems that might bring the show to a halt , It is my job to foresee what might go wrong and fix it before it is broken.  The term fix it in post simply does not exist for a live show.  When you are live streaming on a global scale, such as we did with Fender and 100 monkeys tonight there is alot of presure to get it right.   Fans have very little patience for technical imperfections. Ashley: Did you have any problems with the 100 Monkey stream tonight? Brett:  Of course we did, but what made the stream so successful is that we were able to anticipate solutions prior to  them being seen on air.  To be honest it takes good people on all sides of the production to make it really work. And we were very fortunate tonight to be able to work with an amazing crew with talent and vision. Everything from setting aside the right amount of time to test and set up, through to being agile and flexible when it came to switching efficiently and successfully masking any issues from the end user. And besides all that, it was just great to work with fantastic musicians who knew their craft and brought the goods to the table. In the end you’re only as good as the people around you. Band Members

The viewers experience was perfection,  What we bring to any production is a talented and resourceful team, that thinks on their feet and not only works on solving our own problems, but also works together to improve the entire user experience. Success for us is an enjoyable and issue free stream. Whilst we’re aware that in this format there are any multitude of factors outside of our control, we aim to be as prepared as we can. Often times we’ll need to add a graphic here, show a clip there, throw up an informative message, replace a logo, or change titles according to that last minute email. All this is possible when you have motivated people working to make our clients and viewers happy. —-

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Streaming – Hawaiian Style

When Absolute Live Productions was asked to Stream a live pay per view event from a Kona golf coarse I thought, Now that should be fun. I even packed my golf clubs figuring that I would be able to get a round of golf in while I was staying only 100 yards from a paradise golf course. (L.O.L.)    Now I must say,  This is where I should and will be telling you lots of pertinent information cleverly told through anecdotal situation s, However this is a live an active blog and since I  was just told this particular coffe shop i am writing this blog in has decided to close within the next 5 minutes, I will skip to the end…………………………. So in conclusion, The TriCaster worked great, the LiveU came through in a clutch and having the chance to meet Jane, Megan, Carl and work with Jen, Bill not to mention Dave was priceless.   I assure you, I will give me some more information one I find a little more free time and I will fill in the gaps. In the meantime enjoy the photos. ———————————

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s all about Twitter

When the Pepe Agular was looking to do a live web cast with Twitter feed to interact with his fans prior to the release of his new record he had been recommended to the folks at Absolute Live Productions. On the surface what they needed was simple, two cameras against a green screen with the cover artwork behind him. It wasn’t long after he showed up that we realized that he actually needed was a complete webcast with real time switching and compositing of multiple backgrounds and video streams simultaneously. They also found the need for an intricate  custom background to be designed for their EPK. For Absolute Live Productions this was easily done. They immediately called their effects artist Jason Young. Ashley: Jason, Who designed the back ground for Pepe’s fan club introduction? Jason: It was a clabertive effort.  They gave me an idea of styles that they were looking for and gave the freedom to use my own artistic expression to create the back ground and title sequence for the fan club introduction. Ashley: Is this now something you can use in a live stream? Jason: Absolutely, most of the back grounds and graphic design that we billed here are designed to be incorporated into a live stream broadcast.  In Fact, We are working on distributing a series of backgrounds all designed to be imported into the TriCaster for high end graphics of a live event.  We are also designing virtual sets and custom environments. Ashley: Lastly Jason, What else can you design? Jason: It is not about me.  It is about our team.  Our team is comprised with some of the very best VFX and graphic artist Hollywood has produced.  Now for myself, I  completely enjoy the process and will personally be involved on a supervisor level  with most of the projects that come through our doors.  I wish there were more hours in the day to personally keep  up with every aspect of my craft, but until there is I will leave much of the day to day in the hands of our competent artists.  Client satisfaction is number one in my book and we have developed our well oiled artistic machine to achieve this, each and every time.

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Absolute Live Productions is a full service Audio / Video / Streaming Production and Rental company specializing in the world of live event capture and streaming. Our Pro Tools live audio capture and mixing division has successfully serviced many of the large as well as upcoming acts that perform around Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego as well as many other outlying venues. Absolute Live Productions has developed an, ” Ala cart pricing structure” in order to deliver to the client exactly what the job requires with out having them pay for a long laundry list of services and equipment that the particular job might not actually require. Clients are constantly amazed at how affordable our services are while maintaining the highest quality level of professional content delivery. The Absolute team of Dan Bosworth, Kyle Clauson, and Dave Rosen backstage in Las Vegas show KA. Our 5.1 Pro Tools Mix Stage gives you the perfect environment to mix your project synced up to picture. We own all of the latest Pro Tools audio plug-ins and HD video decks allowing you to finish your project complete onto any format. When leaving our offices at Absolute Live Productions , you will walk out with a consumer ready product. Absolute Live Productions  is prepared to take on any part of your project from simple live tracking, to the entire project including Live Switching, Graphics, Titling, Broadcast and Streaming.   We can capture and stream anything from a one night show, to an entire tour . Absolute Rentals was brought in to record the Black Eyed Peas concert, Scott Oyster was the engineer, This was a 96 channel Pro Tools record with a simultaneous back up to multiple MX24′s